Andrej Sekera: 2010-2011 Report Card

I really believe that Sekera is a great puck moving defense-man who will get better defensively. I think Sekera is key part of this D for years to come. He will only get better. He bounced around partners. Partner him with a stay at home defense-man and you will love the way this guy moves the puck out of the zone and creates odd man rushes. D can always be taught but skating, heads up ability, and puck movement is either you have it or your don’t and he shows flashes of brilliance. I really think he can grow to be a top tiered O mined D. Just my two cents.

for all the flack Sekera got, he was still rated our 2nd best defenceman on the defensive side, as per Hockey Reference. Only Montador was rated higher in defensive point shares, and yes that means he was ranked higher than Myers. Now I don’t know the validity of those rankings, but for the most part they seem accurate.

I think we shouldn’t give up on Sekera, especially if the arbitration hearing goes well. He should have the fire to compete for a spot now, but I think the thing that will help him more than anything else is instead of being paired with an offensive dman to be paired with someone like Weber that will allow him to play more to his offensive style. He needs to take more shots but he can’t do that when covering for Myers.

I thought Sekera had a great year. If you ask me, I think he’s on the verge of having a breakout season. His career numbers mimic those of Soup, right up until he broke out.

This week should be interesting for Reggie. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was moved though. Not to try and sound all ‘hockeybuzz’ like (I swear), I spoke with a guy last week who claims to know one of Sekera’s old coaches from Owen Sound, and he says the old coach had seen Sekera lately, and that he wants out. For whatever reason, I don’t know; I’m just saying, and don’t kill me for this rumor-mongering!

I think Reggie finally played to his potential last season, which is a huge step in his development. Hopefully, we will be able to keep him this summer to give us six solid D (Regehr, Myers, Leopold, Ehrhoff, Weber, Sekera) while having a seventh defenseman (Grags) who had an amazing playoff. I would understand if we cannot keep him, and we do have a lot of depth in your system D-wise, but I would much rather see him patrolling our blue line next season.

I dont think he’ll be more than that on this team… and $2.5 a year is way too much for that spot.

He is the Max of our defensive corps.

I want seven solid D next year and his strengths fit well with the current roster – fast, mobile, offensively-minded, great skater. He’s young and Lindy is his couch; he’ll keep getting more defensively responsible. Plus, the whole “can-also-play-forward” thing is nice to have in a pinch. (Though I think Grags is the same.) Gave him an 8.

I think he could be Dan Boyle-light.

So lame.

As much as a puck mover he is supposed to be the G/A/Pts did not reflect it. He did improve on his defensive consistency. I see MAG and him vying for #6 along side Weber.